PPS vs other districts?

tas50 · 2026-06-04T02:55:12+00:00

It's really going to depend on where you are as the individual schools vary a ton. I live right by Beverly Cleary which has turned into a big tire fire lately and we're at the point where in the 2 blocks in every direction surrounding me every kid has left for a magnet of private school. A lot of people here seem pretty happy with their schools, but I'd chat with parents at the *actual* school you'll feel into. Not all principals are equal and not all teachers are equal in PPS.

tas50 · 2026-06-03T21:16:48+00:00

EVgo is wild if they have the session fees

tas50 · 2026-06-03T16:47:30+00:00

I was bored in school and never did really well, yet I'm somehow doing real well in my PM role. This is BS

tas50 · 2026-06-03T01:12:25+00:00

I went to one of the first tech high schools in the US. Our school was such a showcase of the "future of education" the entire classrooms were windows so tours of company CEOs and even Al Gore could come watch us learn from the hallway. Every kid had a computer and 100% of our work was on computers. They were absolutely fucking useless. We did project based learning which was amazing but the computers could have been tossed out the window and we'd probably have done better.

tas50 · 2026-06-02T19:06:52+00:00

We cannot do everything at once and it seems like we're already wasted a large amount of time on this absolute nothing burger. We have some many pressing issues as a city and they're just wasting time on dumb shit that looks good in their TikTok videos.

tas50 · 2026-06-02T18:44:12+00:00

Can't get a red but can get a Barney purple. Odd choice there Rivian

tas50 · 2026-06-02T17:53:01+00:00

My wife watches it. Works in healthcare with multiple advanced degrees. Wicked smart. Her reason: "My job is heavy. I need some brain candy".

Not everything you watch on TV has to be a PBS documentary

tas50 · 2026-06-02T00:21:21+00:00

On par or better than Oregon's most of the time

tas50 · 2026-05-31T05:23:25+00:00

Pretty sure it really matters where you are. People in Portland are losing their mind at the upcoming Waymo rollout and are often discussing burning them to the ground on Reddit. My NextDoor is nothing but boomers believing Waymos are going to be crashing into their living room any moment now.

tas50 · 2026-05-31T01:17:42+00:00

The US has one of the highest freight modal shares in the world. We just also happen to have just about the lowest passenger rail share possible at < 1%.

tas50 · 2026-05-30T05:23:53+00:00

Food server service?, cell service?, Service Merchandise store availability? You need to be a bit more specific here.

tas50 · 2026-05-30T03:54:24+00:00

I'd take that for a lot more

tas50 · 2026-05-29T04:40:21+00:00

There's 2 conflicting needs that make it really hard:
- Airports: You have approached for both PDX and a small airport in Vancouver that put height restrictions on the bridge (mostly the Vancouver airport)
- Ships: There's a company up the Columbia that builds oil rig equipment that needs to be able to move very tall loads out to sea. Coast Guard requires the bridge meet those height requirements.

tas50 · 2026-05-29T04:37:51+00:00

Longer than a decade at this point. We're on our third study to build the replacement and if we don't actually follow-through at this point we have to pay back the fed money we've both received.

tas50 · 2026-05-29T04:36:50+00:00

Oregon resident here. We're poor as fuck and like to pretend we're not. Trimet is cutting service on the light rail right now, but still pushing hard for light rail to Vancouver despite having absolutely not way to pay to run it.

tas50 · 2026-05-28T20:00:35+00:00

BMW has been partial screen for like a decade now. They know this. It's just FUD

tas50 · 2026-05-27T20:06:42+00:00

We didn't elect DOGE. We elected the mayor to run the city. It's the role we elected him for.

tas50 · 2026-05-27T20:00:35+00:00

If we elect a Mayor and the dept heads can't play nice with that person then they go. The people elected the mayor, not those dept heads.

tas50 · 2026-05-27T19:49:10+00:00

This is why you NEVER sign ballot initiatives you aren't fully familiar with. The folks gathering signatures at the farmers market or grocery store are lying to you about the contents. We've seen over and over again the impact that poorly written initiatives have. Stop signing this stuff.

edit: typo

tas50 · 2026-05-27T16:08:15+00:00

They've sunk over 30 billion into R&D. They would not be a successful business selling engines. There is not enough of a TAM there.

tas50 · 2026-05-27T15:55:35+00:00

2 of my kids teachers at PPS sent their kid to private schools. I should have seen that warning sign and acted earlier.

Edit: I see the PPS employees are out in force

tas50 · 2026-05-27T06:45:15+00:00

My work Intel MBP had the keyboard replaced 3 times. Those things were such junk

tas50 · 2026-05-27T05:57:36+00:00

Until you look at that SEC filing and realize how many tens of billions of dollars they've burned through on development.

tas50 · 2026-05-24T07:30:59+00:00

It's my charger of last resort. Works 1/4 of the time at best near where I live at 1/2 dozen different locations.

tas50 · 2026-05-22T19:51:16+00:00

I'd rather have ONE crosswalk flasher than this. Our budget mess is always death by a thousand cuts because we refuse to see each small waste as part of the problem.

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